Hellfire Lounge 3: Jinn Rummy
Balticon is less than four weeks away, and I’ll be participating in two (count ’em, two!) launch parties for two amazing anthologies, The Modern Fae’s Guide to Surviving Humanity and Hellfire Lounge 3: Jinn Rummy. In honor of the occasions, this month’s Six Sentence Sundays will be devoted to the stories featured in those anthologies. Since you’ve already had several snippets from “Fixed”, let’s take a taste of “Burning Down the House”, my story in Hellfire Lounge 3. Enjoy!
Eddie Woodhouse lurched between the tables of the Sixth Circle Club, apologizing every ponderous step of the way. Carrying a full-grown jinni inside his skin was hell. Its spine-crushing weight was only the start. Despite the swelter of July in New York, his thermal fleece sweatsuit, the heat of the crowd and the flames jetting in the six upright iron cages evenly spaced along the club’s circular wall, it was all he could do to keep from shivering as he approached the sorceress waiting at the shadowed table furthest from the door.
Gritting his teeth, he eased his tripled girth into the wide-armed leather chair across from her. The puffy cushions clenched around him like a boxing glove around a fist.
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To read the rest, you’ll have to buy the book–and you can get it at Balticon. Hope to see you there.
Sounds like quite the place! Loved the description! Great job.
Thanks, Karyn. Hopefully, things just get hotter from here.
Awesome descriptions!
Thanks, Ceri!
Oh, wonderful descriptions here! Loved how hot (temp wise) you show it is and yet the sorceress is so badass he shivers… And then the last description with the boxing glove was perfect.
Thanks, Angela, and again, congratulations on finaling in the 2012 Marlene Awards.
Wow! Sounds like he is quite the predicament! Great descriptions. I’m worried about him.
LOL He’s worried about him.
Great descriptions!
Thanks, Sharon!